Plant-based Fresh and Foraged Recipes
As the hot days come to a close, I’m treasuring ever last warm moment with this heirloom tomato summer watermelon salad, complete with fresh herbs, spicy peppers, and crunchy cucumbers. The juicy red tomatoes and watermelon are savory and sweet, filled with juice, and complemented …
Salads are lovely, but if I’m eating a salad as my meal it had better be filling and interesting- no plate of iceberg with two cherry tomatoes for me! Sometimes that means I end up cooking and spicing different components, and chopping huge amounts of …
Bright, fresh, colorful, and lemony, this wood sorrel, jicama, and beet slaw is so deliciously refreshing, it’s cooling and invigorating, even on the warmest summer days. The lemony dressing and wood sorrel offset the more earthy flavors in the beets, and the jicama adds it’s …
This simple vegan pasta salad highlights an overlooked vegetable- the pea tendril- and wraps it up in a orange salad dressing with notes of sesame and ginger. Purple cabbage gives that extra little crunch, and toasted almonds and sesame seeds add touches of flavor and …
Light, bright, and super crunchy, this fennel and apple salad is made bite-sized and the perfect healthy appetizer in Belgian endive cups. Or maybe they should be called Belgian endive spoons, as they remind me much more of crunchy, ever so slightly bitter, edible spoons. …
Noodles, pasta, whatever you call it, might be the greatest food humans have ever invented. From warm noodle soup, to gooey mac n cheese, to spicy cold noodles, there’s no getting around the fact that pasta is great. These spicy noodles are made similarly to …
Carrot tops tabbouleh made with kamut is flavorful, with the delicate, herby flavor of fresh carrot tops. Chewy, soft kamut is dressed with lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper, and joined with cucumbers, scallions, and cherry tomatoes. This spring salad is the total …
If a Greek salad became vegan, and then met a green goddess dressing on a health kick, and the two of them fell directly into a bowl of Peruvian quinoa, the result would be something like the salad I’m sharing here today. A strong quinoa …
Summer heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, tarragon and tofu in a miso vinegrete. It’s not exactly a caprese salad- it branches out from the traditional- but this vegan caprese salad is delicious enough to compete with any caprese. It’s perfect for a hot summer days when …
I get a box of veggies from a local CSA (community supported agriculture) every week, and having fresh, locally grown, seasonal produce is just heaven. Along with that heaven often comes a slight problem of too much produce, or too much of a certain type …